Saya is cosplaying as Kaine from NieR Gestalt. Nier is an action role-playing video game developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix. It was released in April 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. In Japan, the game was released as two titles: Nier Gestalt for Xbox 360, and Nier Replicant for PlayStation 3. The sole difference is that Nier Replicant adapted the player character's appearance and relationship with the character of Yonah for the Japanese audience, where Nier is her older brother. By contrast, the Nier from Nier Gestalt is an older, more masculine character, who is Yonah's father, and it is this version that was released on both platforms outside of Japan.The game follows the main character, Nier, as he attempts to find a cure for an illness, known as the Black Scrawl Virus, that Yonah has succumbed to. Partnering with a talking book known as Grimoire Weiss, he journeys with two other characters, Kainé and Emil, as he attempts to find a remedy and understand the nature of the creatures, Shades, that stalk the world. The game was released to mixed reception, with a Metacritic average of 68 and 67 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 respectively; praise was given to the story, characters and soundtrack but criticism was reserved for the graphics and gameplay mechanics.